Cuckoo-Pint Leaves

Noticed a patch of the glossy, arrow-shaped leaves of cuckoo-pint or lords-and-ladies (Arum macrolatum) growing in the Serpentine Walk in Lower Largo. Later in the spring the unusual flower appears consisting of a pale green cowl-shaped hood called a spathe which partially encloses a purple-brown-topped flowering spike (the spadix). Later still poisonous berries develop, ripening from green to red.

In the garden have a related plant with attractively silver-marbled leaves (Arum italicum). 

Pronounced arrow-shaped leaves.

Looked back and  found a photo that I took in late August 2011 of the berries of cuckoo-pint growing beside the disused railway line track quite close to the old station car park in Lower Largo. By that time the leaves had withered leaving just the berries.